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From people displaying memes of the character Jean Luke Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation that reads “Every morning I wake up, I’m like ‘Damage report'” to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s epic Trump burn saying if he were president, maybe most Americans can once again sleep at night. There is truth in both those statements. Since Mr. Trump has taken office, the sale on sleep aides has likely skyrocketed.

Tea Partiers always seem angry and negative. Before the inauguration of Mr. Trump, they spent most of their days listening to blow-hards peddling false news to an audience who lapped up every word.

Then there are other Americans who simply spend their lives in a constant state of negativity. Unfortunately, that is life. Unless they find the courage to change it, negativity will always be a part of them.

So far this president has worried Muslims (Americans and immigrants alike), refugees (at home and abroad), Latinos (legal and illegal), most women, the LGBT Community, and other American’s for various reasons. Unlike some of my fellow Americans, I can still sleep at night, but reading the daily news keeps me in a near constant state of anger and worry. An American president, his cabinet, and Congress should not cause the American people sleepless nights, anger, worry, sadness, and any other strong, negative emotions.

I am sure that past presidents have caused these emotions. Former President Andrew Jackson creating the Federal Banking System likely caused some American negativity along with Abraham Lincoln overseeing troops during the Civil War, or Franklin D. Roosevelt prior to World War II. Have they done it to this heightened extent, or to so many American people? It seems the only people who are not worried are apathetic Americans and Tea Partiers.

“There’s just so much to be done,” Trump said after winning the presidential election. “So I don’t think we’ll be very big on vacations, no.”

Not only was the weekend before last his third straight weekend taking a vacation, his trips cost the tax payers $3 million dollars each time he travels via Air Force One to his Mar-a-Lago golf resort. I do not care if he calls it his “Winter White House,” he is playing golf, which – to me – definitely counts as a vacation. Perhaps he thinks it does not count because he brought the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with him. Although, dragging a Prime Minister around a resort to show off to his Super PAC mega donors, schmoozing with his one-percenter pals, and rubbing elbows with other CEOs willing to “pay to play” for a top government position (Betsy DeVose anyone?) is known as a huge conflict of interest. Do not forget the $200,000 membership to Mar-a-Lago includes an up close and in person view of Mr. Trump being “president” on the weekends. They can pull Mr. Trump aside to have a say on policy and who he should choose as a Cabinet Member. If they are super lucky, Mr. Trump will ask their advice on how to cheaply build his pointless wall.

Real estate executive Bruce Toll told the New York Times that he does occasionally discuss national policy issues, particularly when it comes to Trump’s plans to increase spending on infrastructure projects, when he sees Trump at Mar-a-Lago. According to Toll, Trump sometimes receives advice from other club members about what to do policy-wise.

Developer Richard LeFrak, a close friend of Trump’s, recounted a discussion at Mar-a-Lago last weekend during which Trump asked him for help with the proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico. Trump was unhappy with the projected cost of the wall, wanted to come up with a way to build it more cheaply, and suggested that the head of the Department of Homeland Security would give LeFrak a call to talk about it.

And according to an audio tape obtained by Politico from one of Trump’s New Jersey clubs that was also published on Saturday, Trump has asked his club members for their guidance selecting his cabinet appointees.

A member can even take pictures with his cabinet members out on the scenic patio. If a member is really lucky, they might watch Mr. Trump handle a National Security crisis usually requiring the White House Situation Room, or a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

SATURDAY EVENING, NORTH Korea launched a ballistic missile that traveled over 300 miles before crashing into the Sea of Japan—far enough to hint at the ability to drop a nuke on one of the US’ closest allies.

Naturally, President Trump discussed the matter with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was visiting the US, and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. But here’s the problem: He did so in full view of guests at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, with smartphone cameras and flashlights pointed at presumably sensitive material.

It was perfectly fine for Mr. Trump to discuss matters of National Security with the Prime Minister of Japan since it does involve his own country, and we are allies. What is not okay are the Mar-a-Lago civilian guests who were present with their cell phones, flashing pictures, and possibly capturing sensitive material for the world to see. That is correct. Not only are there pictures, but they were posted to Facebook. I will give my readers a moment to reread that last sentence. If that was not bad enough, a guest also posted a picture of him and someone who should never have his picture posted on social media let alone his name.

…Mr. Trump’s military aide responsible for carrying the nuclear “football” — the briefcase that contains codes for launching nuclear weapons.

So there is now a picture of the guy in charge of carrying our nuclear weapons codes floating around the internet. It does not matter that the photo is now “sanitized.” When it was first posted, it was not. What is placed on the internet will always be on the internet. Several media organizations and – I am sure – nefarious people likely took plenty of screen shots of the original picture. (Anyone else notice that it was an old rich white dude who posted that picture to Facebook?!) I do not know about you, my dear readers, but after reading the above quoted line I turned white from shock. Later, I definitely felt a fair amount of fear and extreme anger. I am not even afraid to admit I cried over the egregiously blatant disregard for our Country’s wellbeing.

Mr. Trump appears to enjoy presenting the spectacle of his presidency to those at his privately held club…

Mr. Jackass Trump is basically putting us all in danger to make a buck. I feel completely justified in my fear when an idiot and his rich (also morally questionable) cronies are leading the country. (I guess you have to be severely stupid and greedy to have more money than most of the globe).

What makes my blood boil are the aides, cabinet members, Secret Service, National Security Members, Speaker of the House, other members of Congress, and even the civilian guests. None of them thought this was a problem? Not one person spoke up. No one said, “Gee, this is a national security issue, those documents and the whole scene I’m witnessing seems serious so I really shouldn’t take a picture”? Not one security member or aide thought to mention to Mr. Trump, “Hey, this deals with the security of the American people. Maybe we shouldn’t discuss these things outside?” How about the aide carrying the nuclear “football?” Why did he not say, “No you cannot take my picture because of National Security” and perhaps, “I don’t want to die”? Whatever happened to the power of a simple “No”?

More and more people are losing respect and trust in Mr. Trump. Those last two quotes I presented are from the New York Times. Notice they use “Mister” as Mr. Trump’s title and not “President?” It is not just corporate print media (excluding Faux Fox News) have little to no respect and trust in Mr. Trump. Neither do American Intelligence agencies. We are talking the spy community, people. They alert us to potential threats so we can be ready.

There is more consequential IC pushback happening, too. Our spies have never liked Trump’s lackadaisical attitude toward the President’s Daily Brief, the most sensitive of all IC documents, which the new commander-in-chief has received haphazardly. The president has frequently blown off the PDB altogether, tasking Flynn with condensing it into a one-page summary with no more than nine bullet-points. Some in the IC are relieved by this, but there are pervasive concerns that the president simply isn’t paying attention to intelligence.

Everything I have laid out is worse than a horror movie or a particularly chilling thriller. If this does not make most Americans more concerned, apathetic Americans start to get concerned, or raise a flag or two to the white supremacist Tea Partiers, maybe a nuclear fallout with our own weapons will. That is, if anyone other than the one-percenters survive. (Seriously, people might have found money to build bunkers in the 50s, but who can find that kind of cash laying around these days)?

Furthermore, there is the issue of the potential Russian ties to Mr. Trump, his cabinet members, and the Republican party. On Valentine’s Day, Michael Flynn was “forced to resign” (a. k. a., fired) from his National Security post for calling the Russian Ambassador the day former President Obama placed sanctions on Russia for hacking an American election.

Mr. Trump blamed news media leaks for Michael Flynn’s dismissal. He might think media leaks are bad, but in this budding “worse than Watergate” situation, media leaks are my new favorite thing in the world.

This whole circumstance brings up one big question: How many of America’s top government officials are involved in the Russian conspiracy? The government is controlled by the Republicans who, I suspect, also have ties to Russia. The Senate did launch an inquiry into the Russian hacking allegations, which will take a while.

Republican leaders are not promising a quick turnaround.

Burr surmised that it would take months to “aggressively” comb through all the intelligence pertaining to the suspected hacking, given that the scale and extent aren’t yet clear. And Republican leaders are clearly waiting on the intelligence panels to take the lead.

As for the Michael Flynn case, Senate Republicans are oddly reluctant to investigate. Now, the American people are starting to ask who knew about Flynn’s Russian involvement. Enter Rep. John Chaffetz (R-UT). Last post I mentioned his accusations that his town hall meeting constituents were replaced with liberal organization paid rabble rousers. Their main purpose was to bully him. Surely, none of his constituents would be disappointed in his work?

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said Tuesday that his panel won’t investigate the circumstances that led to Michael Flynn stepping down Monday as President Trump’s national security adviser.

Instead, Chaffetz deferred to the House Intelligence Committee, which is already investigating Russia’s attempt to influence the presidential elections, a scope that includes campaign communications with the Russian government.

“I think that situation has taken care of itself. I know that the Intel committee is looking into the hacking issue,” Chaffetz told reporters.

Since the House Intelligence Committee is already looking into the Russian hacking case, why not give them more work? Where is the passion and drive? Where is the righteous indignation that Russia might have a big influence on top officials within the American government? No worries, “that situation has taken care of itself.”

What does Senator Rand Paul have to say about the situation? Surely, he would have something scathing to say about the Trump administration and demand swift action?

Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday an investigation into the resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would be excessive and it would not make sense to investigate other Republicans.

I guess not. Lately, Sen. Paul has been going against his Libertarian leanings by voting for Sen. Jeff Beauregard Sessions as Attorney General. Sessions is for the “War on Drugs,” and he is a staunch supporter of mass incarceration (which means he is likely being paid by the private prison industry), and Libertarians are generally against the War on Drugs and mass incarceration. I thought they would also be against a Russian influence on the American Government. Apparently not.

While growing up, American children learn a lot of things: Respect the flag, American military service members are heroes (even though the government does not treat them as such), and Russia is bad (even though the Cold War ended in 1991).

Now we have a president who ignorantly endangers the safety of the American people for money, has possible ties to Russia, has aides communicating with Russia, Republicans obviously unwilling to investigate any of these travesties appearing to aid and abet these treasonous people, and people staunchly supporting Mr. Trump. None of them see any reason to “Drain the Swamp” the 99-percenters live in. Please tell me I am not the only one concerned.

I’m sorry this particular post is so late. There were a few artistic difficulties. Instead of making the same Christmas Grinch post, I was going to couple it with another Zombie Jesus concoction.

Everyone loves Zombie Jesus especially Megyn Kelly from The Fox New Channel who insists that Jesus was white. Hypothetically, if Jesus was real, he would have been Jewish living in the Mediterranean. Hence, he would have been a nice tan color not European white.

It stands to reason that Megyn Kelly was talking about Zombie Jesus. Surely, Zombie Jesus is white…or whitish…since his skin cells are dead.

While attempting to write the Zombie Jesus post, I surmised that “faithful” Christians, Catholics, Evangelicals, and Tea Partiers couldn’t possibly follow the teachings of hypothetical Jesus since he was a stickler for curing the sick (universal healthcare), feeding the poor (no moping school floors required), and disliked capitalism.

Despising greedy bastards was hypothetical Jesus’s modus operandi since they believed that poor people who couldn’t afford healthcare and food should die. Which happens to coincide with beliefs of most zealot Christians, Catholics, Evangelicals, all Tea Partiers, nasty people with bad attitudes, and capitalists.

Hence, all those lovely people worship anti-Jesus (a.k.a., Zombie Jesus). They still worship the same God since he’s a sadistic jerk.

I attempted to come up with cleverly sarcastic phrases about Zombie Jesus whispering encouraging words to capitalists who’s wallets are too big for their britches. Greed seems to make the brain taste like the finest filet mignon from the best five star restaurant.

Then I went on to say how the aforementioned Zombie Jesus worshipers had no brains making them the worst Zombie Jesus dish, but they make perfect followers.

Somehow I would tie in the greed of children carelessly ripping open meticulously wrapped gifts and make another sarcastic joke. By the way, the brains of greedy children taste like veal.

For some reason, the unreality of Christmas cheer and hypocritical religious people couldn’t sum up my usual pithy phrases of sarcastic disgust.

My comedic talents are nowhere near the genius of Jon Stewart. When I watched and read the news reports regarding Black Friday mob riots, I was horrified. I’m still horrified. There’s no possible way I can comically iterate the stupidity of people fighting others for useless things marked down to their regular price. (Does anyone else feel that regularly priced items are ridiculously overpriced?) The whole ordeal defies my imagination. Thank the Creator for people like Jon Stewart who’s able to display his disbelief in a funnier way.

Near the beginning of the year, there was a meme going around Facebook that stated A civilized society has no need of guns. I am a civilized person who, unfortunately, lives in an uncivilized society.

When people get into fist fights over towels, it’s hard not giving up on society. I hope we have another Era of Enlightenment where most zealously religious people leave their beliefs in the dumpster and embrace reason. At least put their beliefs in a different perspective, find the compassion of hypothetical Jesus, and embrace reason.